Who Is that Masked Man?
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- September
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Bronxville is a tiny village that epitomizes wealth and exclusivity. Maybe that’s why it is also a magnet for weirdness.
Not long ago, I was walking through town and saw a man standing outside the village’s lone supermarket with a sign that said, “Hungry.” That’s all it said.
The man wore a mask in the Long Ranger style, only it was red. He didn’t look particularly famished either. In fact, he looked a bit overfed. Fat, really.
It was unclear whether he was asking for money or food, or anything for that matter. People just walked right by him. No one said a word.
A week before that, while walking my dog I saw him lying shirtless on the sidewalk next to an apartment building near the Metro Norht train station. He was awake and wasn’t hurt. But he said nothing as I passed. He seemed to be fiddling with a pack of cigarettes.
This guy seems harmless, but you have to wonder what the story is.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
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